About

My name is James Waters and I am a digital designer originally from London, but now based in West Sussex. I have a broad mix of both creative and technical skills that I love experimenting with to produce stunning work. I am always pushing myself and looking to learn new skills, as well as developing my existing skills.

Education

My interests

Outside of freelance work, I am an artist and I am passionate about many different forms of creativity. I really enjoy drawing and painting using both traditional and digital methods.

I enjoy music; I play the guitar and I like going to see live music. I am interested in martial arts and I currently practice a martial art called Wing Chun. I am keen on travelling and I am looking to do more travelling around the world in the future.

I am really into comics and I am in the process of writing my own comic. I am also into game design and I am presently teaching myself Unreal Engine.

If you would like me to produce some work for you, feel free to contact me, using the form below and we can discuss what you need and how much it will cost you.
And don’t forget to follow me on social media to see what I am up to!

Portfolio

MyOffers social media idents

MyOffers

Motion Graphics

Win £500 to spend on petrol

MyOffers

Photo Editing

Super Nintendo Mini

Testers Keepers

Illustration

Bedroom Renovation

MyOffers

Graphic Design, Illustration, Photo Editing

Malibu promotion

Testers Keepers

Illustration

I'm a beetle

Personal project

Game Design

Purrfect Stay cattery website

Purrfect Stay

Web Design

Mario Kart promotion image

Testers Keepers

Graphic Design

Amazon Echo vs. Google Home

Testers Keepers

Graphic Design

Life Fitness Banner

Costco

Graphic Design, Photo Editing

Out of the Box

Leroy Smith

Book Layout, Graphic Design

FLYKICK. ident

FLYKICK./Personal project

Motion Graphics

Contact me

If you're interested in my work, feel free to give me a shout using the form below.

MyOffers social media idents

MyOffers

I designed and animated these idents to go at the start and end of
videos, which are posted up on MyOffers' social media profiles.

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These idents have been scaled to the standard video dimensions for Facebook.

Win £500 to spend on petrol

MyOffers

Photo Editing

I created this photo composition as part of a promotion for a Facebook competition in which the user could win £500 to spend on petrol.

The copy of the Facebook advertisement asked the user “Where would you go if you had £500 to spend on petrol?”, so I came up with this image to reflect that idea.

Super Nintendo Mini

Testers Keepers

Illustration

I produced these two images as part of an online Facebook advertising promotion that users could enter to test, review and keep a Super Nintendo Mini.
To design these, I drew inspiration from the Outrun/Synthwave artistic style that is currently very popular and in turn, borrows a lot of iconography from 80s futurism.

Bedroom renovation

MyOffers

Graphic Design, Illustration, Photo Editing

This image was produced as part of an online promotion which users could enter in order to win £2500 to renovate their bedroom.

Malibu promotion

Testers Keepers

Illustration

I designed and illustrated this image as part of an online promotion that users could enter in order to test and review a new flavour of Malibu.

This image was used for both the email advertisements and landing page as part of the promotion.

I'm a beetle!

Personal project

Game Design

This is a very simple text-based game I made while trying to teach myself about game design and development. I made this game using Unity and while it is not much to look at, I am pretty pleaed with it as it is the first game I have ever made.

The game is about a lab technician who accidentally turns themselves into a beetle and must find a way to change themeselves back without being detected.
You can play the game by clicking this link. At present, the game will only work on a desktop computer.

Purrfect Stay cattery website

Purrfect Stay

Web Design

I designed this website for Purrfect Stay, which is a cattery based in West Sussex. This site is fully responsive and can be viewed via this link.

Mario Kart promotion image

Testers Keepers

Graphic Design

I produced this image as part of an online promotion that users could enter to test (and keep) the Nintendo Switch console, along with a copy of Mario Kart.

As I could not use an actual image of Mario for copyright reasons, I created this image as an artistic representation.

This served as the background image for the landing page.

Amazon Echo vs. Google Home

Testers Keepers

Graphic Design

I designed this image as part of an online promotion in which users could enter to test and review both the Amazon Echo and Google Home, along with reporting back on which they preferred and why.

When I designed this image, I drew a lot of inspiration from old posters used to promote boxing matches from the 1960s.

This image served as the hero image in both email advertisements and on the landing page for this promotion.

Life Fitness Banner

Costco

Graphic Design, Photo Editing

This is a web banner that I designed for Costco to go on their website to promote their exercise machines.

Out of the Box

Leroy Smith

Graphic Design

I designed the front and back covers for the book, Out of the Box – The Story of Leroy Smith, which is an true crime autobiographical book by Leroy Smith.

In addition to designing the front cover, I also put together the layout for the paperback book using inDesign and then sent it off to be printed. I also put together the e-book version for Kindle and other e-book platforms.

If you would like to learn more about Leroy Smith and his book, please visit his website. His website was also designed by myself.